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Support EMBL

Our community events


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Your contribution helps accelerate discovery through the life sciences and to tackle the world’s biggest challenges. On your journey with EMBL, we show you the amazing impact of your donations. In regular communication with you we present to you the projects and researchers that your membership gifts have directly benefited.

As a member, you join the EMBL Family that includes other EMBL supporters, EMBL scientists and leadership, as well as the global community of EMBL Alumni. You are invited to engage with them all at the Friends of EMBL events listed below.

We are happy to welcome you and to show you EMBL behind the scenes.

Events 2025

14 May 2025

Behind the Scenes

Join us for a journey into the world of crystallography, where you’ll hear directly from the researchers behind this innovation. We will connect online with EMBL Grenoble to have a conversation with the researchers that work with the robot prototype. 

EMBL Heidelberg

8 July 2025

Friends of EMBL PhD Lunch

Our PhD students invite you to a joint lunch! EMBL predocs from various labs are looking forward to presenting their exciting research projects and reporting on daily lab operations. There is hardly any other opportunity to experience EMBL so authentically and up close.

EMBL Heidelberg

Friends of EMBL PhD Lunch 2024
Julia Costea

8 October 2025

Science on the Road

Enjoy a guided tour of the Advanced Mobile Laboratory, AML. Visit the truck that drove along the European coastline during 2023 and 2024 as part of the TREC expedition, collecting samples that will allow us to understand our marine ecosystems better and their responses to environmental changes.

EMBL Heidelberg

Events 2024

27 February 2024

EMBL Annual Reception

Our Director General and our scientists look forward to welcoming you to the Annual Reception. Get to know our management and staff and get together with other Friends of EMBL.

EMBL Heidelberg

17 July 2024

Friends of EMBL PhD Lunch

Our PhD students invite you to a joint lunch! EMBL predocs from various labs are looking forward to presenting their exciting research projects and reporting on daily lab operations. There is hardly any other opportunity to experience EMBL so authentically and up close.

EMBL Heidelberg

EMBL Benefit Gala

Every two years, EMBL puts on its finest autumn colours and invites you to an evening of scientific highlights, stimulating entertainment and inspiring company. This year we are planning a special celebration to mark our 50th anniversary and to celebrate the transformative power of giving.

EMBL Heidelberg

EMBL 'World of Molecular Biology' Exhibition

This interactive, state-of-the-art exhibition presents the large and small scientific questions that EMBL is trying to answer. It arouses curiosity about the hidden mechanisms of life. Sign up for a free tour of the exhibition and learn about the relevance of the fundamental research for individuals and society in a fascinating way.

EMBL Heidelberg

Coffee with EMBL

These informal online meetings for members of the global EMBL community of staff, alumni and Friends of EMBL are a great networking opportunity. Personalities from science and society exchange views on the latest research topics at EMBL and beyond.

Online

Science & Society Programme

During our Science & Society events, we reflect together with our guests and the audience on how results and trends in the life sciences affect people individually and society as a whole. We invite experts from various disciplines from all over the world to discuss relevant ethical, legal and social aspects of scientific research.

EMBL Heidelberg

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